Cheating on Books

I CANNOT STAY faithful to one book. I’m a serial cheat. I practice literary polygamy and often I don’t even go back to my main book.

And that’s where the relationship/ books analogy ends. Seriously, if I’m reading I have at least three books on the go at once if not more. Who else does this? I know I’m not alone in having many bookmarks in many novels. Currently I am reading Crime & Punishment in bursts, the first novel of the Dexter series, The Spirit Level, and dipping in and out of Edgar Allan Poe. On top of that I have a ‘work book’, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, which I sometimes read when my full attention isn’t required.

For some reason there’s a satisfaction in reading lots of different and varied books. And I always finish them too, it’s not like I drift and never come back. What’s your reading system like?

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I practice literary polygamy, too. I always have two to three books going at the same time. And one of them is usually one I am rereading, just because I enjoy rereading certain books. 🙂
And I always finish them.
I’ve read the Dexter series.
And the Girl trilogy.
HUGS,
Carolyn 🙂

I loved Crime and Punishment once I really got into it. I always have at least one 19th century history book on deck, a novel (at the moment War and Peace–my daughter and I are reading that together) and usually a recipe book from the library with pretty pictures–which I almost never use.

I often have more than one book on the go, usually of different genres or different subject matter. I also run more than one writing project at any one time. Don’t all readers and writers do that? But I don’t believe I’ve ever been able to handle more than three!

I think it’s a mood thing, sometimes some serious psychological debate is what I crave then other days I’ll be happy with some compelling but easy to read thriller.
And I’m the same with writing projects.

I have books for different times in the day 🙂 I usually begin with Philosophy, then non-fiction or current events, and in the evening I settle down with fiction. Like you, I can’t just go through one book at a time. Book jugglers!